Category Archives: General Information

Unless notified otherwise by your tutor: If Stokes County Schools are closed for inclement weather, Buffalo Creek will be closed as well. If Stokes County Schools are on a delayed schedule or an early dismissal schedule, Buffalo Creek will not … Continue reading →

88% of people who don’t graduate from high school were struggling readers in the third grade. Both nationwide and in North Carolina, only 32% of fourth graders were proficient in reading. Students who are identified as poor readers by the … Continue reading →

Since COVID, the number of children who are stuggling to read has grown from about 1 in 5 to about 1 in 3. Here is a link to a podcast, which recently aired on NPR, that explains part of the … Continue reading →

• Nationwide, on average, only 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2022. • 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022. • 54% of adults have a literacy level below 6th grade. • Low levels of literacy … Continue reading →

We are proud and humbled to have received the 2022 Duke Energy Citizenship and Service Award. Thank you to the King Chamber of Commerce and Duke Energy.

From a student who has completed our program: “I want to thank Buffalo Creek.  It has been great for me.  I was sent through school just to get by and nobody cared. So at 57 and hard of hearing, Jeff … Continue reading →

Thank you to The Winston-Salem Foundation (Bill Johnson Trust to Benefit Stokes County) for a generous grant which will help us pay for our Reading Horizons software renewals.  Thanks to gifts like this we are able to continue our work.

A huge thanks to the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for a $3,000 adult literacy grant which will enable us to double the number of adults we are able to serve with Reading Horizons software.